Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Couldn?t the central bank lower interest rates to stimulate borrowing, ? la Greenspan? Not really. Japan?s interest rates are already less that 1 percent (as opposed to around 5 percent in the U.S., which is itself unusually low). And far from being in lending trim, Japanese banks are so shaky that people are trading their minuscule-yield savings accounts for mattresses and coffee cans...
...hopes to lower instances of diabetes and heart attacks by maintaining a healthier and more fit population overall...
...often faces some interesting artistic challenges. Besides the flying tire in the finale of "Cats," Huessy had to land a helicopter onstage in "Miss Saigon" and lower a fully furnished mansion to the stage in "Sunset Boulevard...
...joined Time Magazine and worked his way up from the lower echelons, where he wrote on national affairs, to the upper ranks of the editorial staff...
...best evidence to date has to do with soy's ability to lower cholesterol. Over the past 25 years, some three dozen studies have shown that eating as little as 47 g, or about 1.5 oz., of soy foods can lower total cholesterol levels an average of 9% and LDL 13%. (Just in case you're keeping score, that's about the same cholesterol-lowering effect as that promised by Benecol, the new high-priced margarine approved by the FDA two weeks ago.) But every little bit counts, since each 1% drop in total cholesterol translates into a 2% drop...